* Posts by Tigra 07

2373 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jul 2010

Mozilla locks nosy Avast, AVG extensions out of Firefox store amid row over web privacy

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Trollface

Re: URL history?

Or pot-bellied?

Is your computer doctor secretly a racist? Two US senators want to find out the truth

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Re: Some illnesses and treatments are race specific

"Where's the data!? Show me the data!"

Richard Dawkins reference?

Tigra 07

Re: Some illnesses and treatments are race specific

"You can not detect "race""

You can "determine" what it was. Better? Pedantry at it's finest.

"It depends on who you ask"

No? Name a country that allows you to be a citizen just by saying you are one. It's a status granted by where you are born, or where your parents were born (making the assumption you don't move obviously). Israel is the only exception, and certain sects of Jews probably share a lot of similar DNA and ancestry to justify that.

"As for nationality, no amount of equipment or funding will make it possible to tell nationality from cells"

You're splitting hairs. Look at "Genetic heritage" or "Genetic Ancestry". There's an entire field of science you're claiming isn't real and doesn't exist, without knowing anything about it. If you can tell which period of time a person is from, and which part of the world, you can most definitely identify their nationality. I'm not saying it's stored in their DNA, i'm saying you can identify it in specific instances.

Tigra 07

Re: Some illnesses and treatments are race specific

"Races exist culturally, they do not exist biologically"

A popular opinion, but there's a bit more to it. If 15 people die in a house fire the makeup and density of bones, teeth, etc can tell which part of the world those people and their ancestors originated from to a fine degree. Providing the effort to do that is not usually necessary, unless you've discovered a mummified body of an ancient king while excavating a Tesco car park.

So in some cases and with the correct funding and equipment you can tell which nationality someone was when they were alive.

Talking a Blue Streak: The ambitious, quiet waste of the Spadeadam Rocket Establishment

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Re: Jet Engine

"That's simply not true"

It's absolutely true. The Nazis were already ramping up their troops levels and by 1934 were massively out of the scope of the Treaty of Versailles, which limited their fighting forces.

You seem to have answered a question I didn't ask. I simply stated they were preparing for war, which they clearly were, and i'll provide a source below. You've instead responded to a different question about "whether they were ready for war".

Source: https://spartacus-educational.com/2WWgermanA.htm

Tigra 07

Re: Jet Engine

"They may have been disgusting Nazis but their management understood technology better than ours did"

They were preparing for war. We were not. Anything to give them an edge was useful. We also didn't bother with advanced ballistic missiles until we had to either (as the article points out).

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Re: USA probably at the root of it

"They got a lot of our secrets and tech in exchange for selling us overpriced goods."

They also dismantled the empire in exchange for their help, in addition to the demands they made for advanced technology. The empire was in slow decline anyway, but the Americans ended it for their own benefit.

Bose customers beg for firmware ceasefire after headphones fall victim to another crap update

Tigra 07
Black Helicopters

Re: Criminal Damage

"I don't recall Science Fiction predicting the future we seem to be blundering into"

How about 1984, with more advanced technology? So Minority report basically?

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Re: Criminal Damage

"I was just about able to handle the chinese needing you to scan a QR code to get toilet paper off the dispenser"

Don't be silly. You won't need to use QR codes.

Just use the app for the toilet paper dispenser...Wait...Servers are down...Shit! Better get in the shower to clean your arse then!

Jacket icon because i need something to wipe my arse on now the app is down.

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RE: 0laf

What about the famous Sony Playstation 3 case?

Sony advertises OtherOS function allowing users to install Linux on the console, then removes the feature with an update. Since an important (for some people) advertised feature was removed it took years in court for Sony to finally pay up a measly amount of cash.

In all honesty, the best thing you can do is return the headphones for a refund, if still under warranty. If not, then try a class action suit.

Googlers fired after tracking colleagues working on US border cop projects. Now, if they had monetized that stalking...

Tigra 07
Pint

Re: Hoist on own petard

"just to say that any law that uses subjective feelings to judge if an offence has occurred is not well thought-out."

And that's why hate crime laws are often a bad idea and do more harm than good. Offence is often subjective. I speak as someone who has a protected characteristic under the equality act.

No wonder Bezos wants to move industry into orbit: In space, no one can hear you* scream

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Re: McAffe is in the office waiting for you Mr Bezos

We should be all for this. We can make the moon a penal colony and exile Bezos to it.

Apple's latest keyboard travels back in time to when they weren't crap

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RE: macjules

"Like a baby's arm, holding an apple logo"

Infosec boffins pour cold water on claims Home Office Brexit app can be easily hacked

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Meh

"Maike Bohn, a co-founder of EU citizen campaign group the3million, said: "We are expecting the government to do more than issuing a statement that it takes security very seriously"

And apparently they are. But you just can't please people like Maike Bohn.

Judge shoots down Trump admin's efforts to allow folks to post shoddy 3D printer gun blueprints online

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Re: But then you'll forget why you bought it

"Are you sure about that? Most of the other methods known can be pretty hit-or-miss. Even long falls and poison are not a certain thing (there have been survivors in each method"

People have also survived being shot in the head. Just saying.

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Re: More guns = safer for everyone

"robbers using the gun they found in the bed-side drawer"

That wouldn't work in the UK then. The robber would have to settle for bludgeoning the homeowner to death with whatever dildo they find in the top drawer.

Do American's really use their sex drawer for storing guns? How bizarre...

Tigra 07
Childcatcher

Re: AC

So, that would be the slippery slope argument come true?

Tigra 07
Pint

Re: Why a 3D printed gun?

I could see this being an issue here in Blighty, with how the Nanny state is progressing...

"Why do you have a bag of screws?"

"They came with this IKEA furniture."

"HE'S BUILDING A BOMB! ALL UNITS! REQUESTING BACKUP!"

Tigra 07
Pint

Re: Why a 3D printed gun?

It only takes a badly written law to turn a screw into a potential weapon...

Tigra 07
Pint

Re: Why a 3D printed gun?

It's also probably cheaper to buy a gun, than a 3D printer and internet anyway in most states...

Double downtime: Azure DevOps, Google cloud users put the kettle on

Tigra 07
Meh

RE: iron

"hopes to have everything fixed by Wednesday"

Ah. But, which wednesday?

Don't miss this patch: Bad Intel drivers give hackers a backdoor to the Windows kernel

Tigra 07
Trollface

Protect your ports people!

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.chinavasion.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F08%2F3656823-data-security-concept-condom-over-usb-cable-e1409303258308.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

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Re: Trust Me. I'm a Microsoftie

"In the same way a country with democratic in its named is not democratic"

Next you'll be telling me the Democratic People's Republic of Korea isn't really Democratic. They have elections you know? There's only one name on the ballot, but still, it's an election none-the-less.

ZTE Nubia Z20: It's £499. It's a great phone. Buy it. Or don't. We don't care

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Trollface

Re: sbt

Your iphone has windows? Treason!

Tigra 07
Devil

A solution to a problem no one wanted...

The only benefit i see for a second screen is on iphones, since they always have a cracked screen when i see one.

When the IT department speaks, users listen. Or face the consequences

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"one year, every month"

Clearly OP is a time traveller... Which pocket has my sonic screwdriver?

Delayed, over-budget smart meters will be helpful – when Blighty enters 'Star Trek phase'

Tigra 07
Trollface

Re: You learn something new everyday

"Cwtch is the new hygge"

Sounds like IKEA furniture...

Tigra 07
Devil

Re: Rudderless

Please let it be Talk Talk! Oh please let it be Talk Talk!

Tigra 07
Devil

RE: Bert 1

"They have their own "release team" which they can call in when they need to leave"

How do you call the "release team" when you've glued your hands to a bus/train/building? Do they dial with their feet, like monkeys?

Tigra 07
Trollface

RE: Phil

"having climate protestors glued to the side of their buildings"

Is that a new type of home insulation? How do we apply?

ProtonMail shoves its iOS app's source code on GitHub for world+dog to rummage around in

Tigra 07
Devil

"alleging it was being used by "terrorists" whose main aim was to send each other disparaging messages about a Russian university sports competition"

Since when did saying you fucked someone's mum make you a "terrorist"?

You'e yping i wong: macOS Catalina stops Twitter desktop app from accepting B, L, M, R, and T in passwords

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Re: RE: sierpinkski

Bugger...You're correct...

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RE: sierpinkski

They can still have the password "apple.sucks1"

UK ads watchdog slaps Amazon for UX dark arts after folk bought Prime subs they didn't want

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Re: In the interests of balance

What about the Monster Raving Loony Party?

Would you open an email from one Dr Brian Fisher? GP app staff did – and they got phished

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Re: [we] "have taken a lot of time to do things right"

TalkTalk could learn a thing or two...

Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina

Tigra 07
Meh

Vista 2.0

Sounds like Vista again.

"Are you sure"

"Are you very very sure"

I discovered the world's last video rental kiosk and it would make a great spaceship

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RE: Dan 55

Sleeping in a drawer eh?

Best way to avoid Cradle Rash and Cot Death!

Imagine finding this bad boy in your shower: Brit startup pulls the sheets off Moon spider mech

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RE: Zot

American? Surely you mean "Merkin"

I knew an American who hated being called a "Merkin". He was very familiar that it's a name for a pubic wig. So of course, we always called him a "Merkin" to rub it in.

Tigra 07
Mushroom

Re: I want a Tachikoma!

Spider Tank... Spider Tank... Blasts whatever a Spider Tank wants..

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Pint

Re: What is wrong with a ....

Unfortunately the moon isn't made of cheese...

Oh dear... AI models used to flag hate speech online are, er, racist against black people

Tigra 07
Headmaster

Racist AI or offensive and crude slang? You decide...

Toxic or not i'd never hire anyone who spoke like that in an interview because 1) It's crass and offensive (the first example in the image especially). 2) It's extremely unprofessional. Skin colour aside, if you can't formulate a sentence without slang or using the words: "Nigga", or "Nigger", then good luck getting a job in any industry or field. Even brilliant qualifications can't make up for that.

In a touching show of solidarity with the NBA and Blizzard, Apple completely caves to China on HK protest app

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RE: David 132

Apple removed a feature that quite literally could have been "revolutionary"...Isn't that the opposite of what they usually preach?

TalkTalk bollocked after fibre marketing emails found to be full of sh!t

Tigra 07
Trollface

RE: anthonyhegedus

Talk Talk takes you 90% of the way to your destination and then the connection terminates?

Tigra 07
Mushroom

Re: RE: The Bionic Man

That ranks up there with the classic non-apology "I'm sorry you were offended/what i said offended you". Those aren't apologies and the people using them are dick-weasels and should be shot into the sun.

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RE: The Bionic Man

My parents had the same issue. Talk Talk was still trying to bill them 6 months after they'd left. They had to threaten to sue Talk Talk for harassment before they finally got their act together.

Virtual inanity: Solution to Irish border requires data and tech not yet available, MPs told

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Re: It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic

"Another option would be to put such blocks at the border crossings"

A big, beautiful wall? Can we get Mexico to pay for it?

Tigra 07
Trollface

RE: Pen-y-gors

Now for the important question. What colour will that passport be?

Yes, i'm trolling, but i couldn't resist.

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Re: It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic

*Cough* Blockchain *Cough*

US charges Singapore coin miner with conning cloud firms out of compute time

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RE: Mark 85

He made $15, then it went up to $300, then it went down to 17 cents, then up to $20 million, then down again to $2500...

Remember the millions of fake net neutrality comments? They weren't as kosher as the FCC made out

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Re: why is it always

Anyone who donates money to a cause seems to be open to those accusations. Even donating to existing charities leads to some people being accused of supporting everything that company has ever done. Bill Gates seems immune to this, so perhaps it's better to create a charity...